Fixed column width in admin interface?

[Jorge Fernandez-de-Cossio-Diaz]

A column of my Django admin interface sometimes has too much text. When this happens, I would like to replace the last part of the text with "...", so that the column width doesn't gets past a maximum character count. How can I do this?

[Simon Charette]

Hi Jorgue,

You can simply define a `list_display` method that truncates your text if required and append an ellipsis.

e.g.

class FooAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ['text_field_ellipsis']

    def text_field_ellipsis(self, obj):
        if len(obj.text_field) > max_length:
            return "%s..." % obj.text_field[:max_length]
        return obj.text_field

Cheers,
Simon

[Gergely Polonkai]

Or you can apply a CSS with overflow: ellipsis; whichever fits you.

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[Jorge Fernandez-de-Cossio-Diaz]

Adding the `list_display` method worked. With Polonkai's solution, just for curiosity, where do I have to "apply the CSS"? I am a newbie, please give the details.